On Sept. 23, Hall submitted her resignation from the Lee County Board of County Commissioners - the same day that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that she faced charges and had entered into a deal. Hall had been the District 4 commissioner since November 2004.

According to court documents, she was running for re-election as a Lee County commissioner in the 2010 election. From November 2009 to November 2010, she diverted and embezzled about $33,756 of donor contributions to the Tammy Hall campaign fund and used the money for personal expenditures.

Hall spent the money on mortgage payments to Bank of America and to cover American Express purchases made at Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mark Loren Designs and Club Monaco.

Hall completed state campaign fund reports and failed to disclose that she had diverted campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses, the documents state. She falsely represented the nature of the expenditures or omitted certain campaign contribution checks from the state campaign reports.

Hall transferred funds from the campaign bank account to her personal account, wrote checks from the campaign account and deposited them into her personal account, and deposited certain donor campaign contributions directly into her personal account.

According to the documents, FBI agents interviewed Hall in February 2012. She made deceptive statements, where she claimed that she never took money from her campaign account to support her personal lifestyle. She said all of the money she took was reimbursement for campaign expenses.

Gov. Rick Scott is charged with filling the vacancy left behind by Hall's resignation.

As of Friday, his office had received 26 applications for the District 4 seat.

"There is no timeline for an appointment to be made," spokesman John Tupps previously said.

Among the pool of applicants are Andy Coy, Brian Hamman, Debbie Jordan and Don Stilwell - all four intend to campaign for the seat in the November 2014 election. Two remaining announced candidates for the seat, Josh McGrail and Larry Murphy, had not applied for the governor's appointment as of Friday.